Ancient Greek

Noun

δῐκᾰστής • ‎(dikastḗs) m ‎(genitive δῐκᾰστοῦ); first declension

1. (law) judge
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96.2

     οἱ δ᾽ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης Μῆδοι ὁρῶντες αὐτοῦ τοὺς τρόπους δικαστήν μιν ἑωυτῶν αἱρέοντο.

     Then the Medes from the same town, seeing his behavior, chose him to be their judge.

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.14.2–3
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.31
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 120
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 81
2. (law, in Athens) juror, juryman
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1136

     ἐν τοῖς δικασταῖς, κοὐκ ἐμοί, τόδ’ ἐσφάλη.

     • Translation by Sir Richard Jebb

       At the hands of the jurymen, not mine, he suffered that loss.

Declension

Related terms

• δικαστήρ ‎(dikastḗr)

References

• δικαστής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Noun

δικαστής • ‎(dikastís) m f ‎(plural δικαστές)

1. (law) judge

Declension

Synonyms

• (colloquial, female): δικαστίνα f ‎(dikastína)

Coordinate terms

• see: δίκη f ‎(díki, “trial”)

External links

• δικαστής on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el